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As to that part of the complaint of Captain Arabin having manned 

 and employed the schooner to cruize, I have no knowledge of that 

 circumstance and am inclined to think it is incorrect. 

 I have the honor to be, &c, 



H. Wright, Collector. 

 W. C. Fahie. E^q., C. B., 



Rear Admiral and Commander-in-Chief ', Halifax. 



[Sub-inclosure 7.] 



Report of Captain Arabin of H. B. M. sloop " Argus." 



MEMORANDUM OF PARTICULARS OF SEIZURE BY THE ARGUS OF THE AMER- 

 ICAN FISHING VESSEL CHARLES, ON THE SOUTH COAST OF NOVA 

 SCOTIA. 



The American fishing schooner Charles, William Stover, master, 

 bi 'longing to York, state of Maine, detained by the Argus at Shel- 

 lmrne on Friday. 9th of May, 1823, for a breach of the act of 59 

 ( ieo. Ill, chapter 38, for the protection of the British fisheries, and to 

 enable his Majesty to make regulations respecting the same, accord- 

 ing to a convention made between his Majesty and the United States, 

 20th October, 1818. The said schooner was found at anchor in Shel- 

 burne harbor, into which she had not been driven by stress of weather 

 or any other fortuitous circumstance. Information had been received 

 of this schooner having put into that same harbor on the Tuesday 

 previous to the seizure, and anchored below Sandy Point, the weather 

 In ',,!,) fine and moderate at that time, as well as on the day of seizure. 

 She went out on Wednesday and returned again on Thursday, where 

 she was found by the Argus on Friday; and having remained hover- 

 ing upon the coast instead of proceeding on her fishing voyage, when 

 there was no pretence whatever for her putting into port, she was 

 detained. 



Septimus Arabin. 

 His Majesty's sloop Argus, at St. John's, N. B., May 16, 1823. 



Mr. Addington to Mr. Adams. 



Washington, June 10, IS24. 

 Sin: In reference to the Bubjed of n letter which I had (he honor 

 to :nl<ln ■-- t<> you on the 12th of October hist, namely, the detention 

 by Captain Arabin of his Majesty's ship Argus, and illegal employ- 

 ment as a British cruizer of the American ashing schooner Ckarle8 i 

 on which T subsequently, in pursuance of instructions from home, 

 gave yon verbally the a mrance "thai orders would be issued by his 

 Majesty's government, thai any American vessel detained by the 

 Charles while thus irregularly employed, should be restored to the 

 owner, even although Liable on other grounds to be condemned;" I 

 have now the honor to inform yon that an inquiry having been insti- 



